Mutty D's Quarter Pounders

Total Time: 2 hrs 5 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 50 mins

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup barley
• 4 cups broth
• 1 1/2 lbs ground beef
• 1/2 cup cottage cheese
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup wheat germ
• 1/4 cup finely chopped carrot
• 1/4 cup finely chopped spinach
• 1/4 cup finely chopped zucchini
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 tablespoon olive oil

Recipe

• 1 put the barley in the broth in a saucepan and bring to a boil.
• 2 reduce heat and simmer for 50 minutes.
• 3 set aside and allow to cool.
• 4 ask human to turn oven on a 350°f.
• 5 in a large bowl (not your dinner bowl – use a clean one, silly), place the meat, cottage cheese, veggies and eggs; mix thoroughly with clean paws.
• 6 add the wheat germ, cooled barley and olive oil; again, mix well.
• 7 spread the mixture evenly in a lightly greased loaf pan and ask human to put it in the 350°f oven for about an hour or so until it is done.
• 8 when the burger loaf has cooled, ask human to cut a ¼ inch to ½ inch thick slice and slap it in one of those stale buns that are buried way in the back of the fridge.
• 9 slap some ketchup on it and inhale the burger.
• 10 wag your tail.
• 11 look at your human with big, wide, thank-you-mommy eyes!
• 12 ask human to freeze leftovers in individual slices for easy future burger-making purposes.